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Chinese fake capacitors http://i.imgur.com/k5i5EXW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/k5i5EXW.jpg The scam was so successful it even ended up in a college EE textbook ht
by est 11y ago
Chinese fake capacitors
http://i.imgur.com/k5i5EXW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/k5i5EXW.jpg
The scam was so successful it even ended up in a college EE textbook
http://i.imgur.com/MUjlvAc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MUjlvAc.jpg (the author thought it was a normal type of capacitor.)
See moar outstanding Chinese counterfeit products here
https://www.zhihu.com/question/37915231 https://www.zhihu.com/question/37915231
The site (zhihu.com) itself is a copycat of Quora.
- Laforet 11y agoThe early 2000s were a horrorshow as far as capacitors were concerned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
- csours 11y agoSo that's why the ELO monitor power supplies kept dying...
- coldpie 11y agoWow, my friend's TV just failed. We cracked it open this past weekend and we found a busted cap that looks just like those. Manufacture date would be mid-2000s, probably 2006-ish. I wonder if they were from one of those bad batches. Crazy coincidence to learn about this now. Edit: Hm, maybe not: """With a typically shortened life span of about 1.5 to 3 years for the failing capacitors, from mid-2003 up to mid-2006, the last of the bad capacitors should have failed by 2007. Commentators on the Internet often predicted the year 2007 would be the end point for "bad capacitors"."""
- iheartmemcache 11y agoHaha, the thing that blows my mind is if those are real Rubycons, that's kind of like selling a "7 series" BMW encased in a real C-series Mercedes enclosure.
- Jack000 11y agoWould be funny if that one was a fake too. A nesting doll of fakes all the way down
- LeifCarrotson 11y agoA 0.1 uF 0603 ceramic, in a 10 uF tantalum case, in a yellow epoxy 22 uF ceramic through-hole....
- verroq 11y agoZhihu is a vast improvement on Quora both on the quality of content and site design though.